Clothes-drier



(No Model.)

. J. L. LINCOLN.

CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 435,436. Patented Sept. 2, 1890.

UNITED y STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. LINCOLN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 435,436, dated September 2, 1890.

I Application filed December 23, 1889. Serial No. 334,611. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN L. LINCOLN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Olothes-Driers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in which- Figure 1 is an end elevation of my improved clothes-drier as suspended from a ceiling and in position for use, its position when moved to one side and elevated being shown -by dotted lines; Fig. 2, a plan view of the lineframe and operating-cords removed from the hanger-rods.

The purpose of this invention is to provide means for moving the line-frame of a clothesdrier from one part of a room to anotherpart and by the same means to elevate the frame when required. Two rods A are suspended a short distance from and parallel with theceiling by three hangers B each. These rods are placed a distance apart corresponding to the width of the.1ine-fra1ne D E and pass through the heads of the hangers B, which, by means of screw-threads, are turned into the ceiling such a distance apart as the lineframe is long, measuring on the rods. The frame is rectangular, and is formed of two long bars E E and two shorter bars D I). Four flexible hangers O are respectively attached to the four corners of the frame, and their ends are provided with rings 1), which are strung on the rods A, so that the hangers 'O at each side of the line-frame shall be supported by a single rod, and so thataring shall be placed on each side of the middle hanger B. This is done that the line-frame may be moved its length without being elevated, and so that, when the line-frame is to be elevated the rings of the two front line-hangers will be stopped by the two left-hand hangers B. Cords a a, &c., are at their ends attached by ordinary means to the ends D of the lineframe, and on them the clothes are to be hung, and cords F F are attached to those corners of the line-frame most remote from the pulley K, and they are united with a single cord G at a point near the left-hand portion of the line-frame, and cords J I are respectively attached to those corners of the line-frame nearest to the pulley K, and they are united with a single cord H far enough from the frame to draw on its corners. The cords G H run over a double pulley K,which is attached to the ceiling or other elevated place, and from thence extend down to within reach to be drawn upon to move forward the line'frame or to elevate it. The cords G H are to be fastened to any well-known device to hold the line-frame elevated.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- An improvement in clothes-driers, consisting of the line-frame D E,provided with lines a a, &c., in combination with rods held parallel. with the ceiling, flexible line -frame hangers 0, provided with rings to slide on said rods, and forked cords attached to the four corners of the line-frame and terminating in two cords running over a double pulley attached to the ceiling or otherconvenient place at one side of the line-frame, as specified.

JOHN L. LINCOLN.

Witnesses:

G. L. CHAPIN, Guns. 1. BARKER. 

